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Intel moving more jobs to Oregon

Intel Corp. plans to move its flash memory production technology from California to Oregon, adding up to 300 new jobs in suburban Hillsboro.

Intel recently told employees of its D2 manufacturing plant at company headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., that it would move a handful of jobs to Oregon this year, then accelerate transfers in 2005 through 2008.

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The D2 plant, built in 1988 and enlarged in three subsequent phases, is Intel’s only remaining factory in California.

Flash memory is used for information storage in devices such as digital cameras, cell phones and handheld assistants. Intel sold about $1.7 billion worth of flash memory chips last year — about 6 percent of its $30 billion in revenues, according to market researcher iSuppli.

Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said the company was not planning to close the California facility. But Intel is gradually moving most of its chip production to 300 millimeter silicon wafers, which can fit 240 percent more individual chips than older 200 millimeter wafers, resulting in significant costs savings.

Since building its first Oregon chip plant in Aloha in 1972, the state has gradually become Intel’s research hub. The company is the largest single industrial employer in Oregon

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